Handbook of Water and Wastewater Microbiology

"Access to safe water is a fundamental human need and therefore a basic human right" --Kofi Annan, United Nations Secretary General

Edited by two world-renowned scientists in the field, The Handbook of Water and Wastewater Microbiology provides a definitive and comprehensive coverage of water and wastewater microbiology. With contributions from experts from around the world, this book gives a global perspective on the important issues faced in the provision of safe drinking water, the problems of dealing with aquatic pollution and the processes involved in wastewater management.

Starting with an introductory chapter of basic microbiological principles, The Handbook of Water and Wastewater Microbiology develops these principles further, ensuring that this is the essential text for process engineers with little microbiological experience and specialist microbiologists alike.

Comprehensive selection of reviews dealing with drinking water and aquatic pollution

Provides an understading of basic microbiology and how it is applied to engineering process solutions

Suitable for all levels of knowledge in microbiology -from those with no background to specialists who require the depth of information

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Pagina ix Faecal bacterial numbers, in particular, are reduced to zero, and thus early water
engineers judged the quality of chlorinated water supplies quite simply on
whether faecal indicator bacteria – principally coliform bacteria – were present in
the ...

Pagina 105 indicator. organisms. School of Civil Engineering, University of Leeds, LS29JT,
UK TABLE 7.2 Geometric mean ... was the first bacteriologist to promote what
later became known as the coliform group of bacteria as indicators of faecal
pollution.

Pagina 106 E. coli was found to be a better indicator of the risk of diarrhoeal disease from
tropical drinking waters than faecal coliforms ... coliforms and E. coli may be
regarded, if not exactly the same, as generally equivalent indicators of faecal
pollution.

Pagina 108 However, these 'new' specific indicators of human and animal faecal pollution
have several disadvantages: 1. sorbitol-fermenting bifidobacteria are extremely
sensitive in the extra-intestinal environment, disappearing much more rapidly
than ...

Pagina 131 This group has been considered as an indicator of fecal contamination in
environmental waters. They are present in relatively high densities in human and
animal feces, in sewage, and it is generally believed they do not grow and
multiply in ...

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Pagina 145 - Pollution is an undesirable change in the physical, chemical, or biological characteristics of our air, land, and water that may or will harmfully affect human life or that of other desirable species, our industrial processes, living conditions and cultural assets; or that may or will waste or deteriorate our raw material resources...